Under the code name Agent Rose, she helped dozens of British and American pilots escape from Nazi-occupied territory onto submarines and gunboats and guided Allied planes to secret landing strips.

Captured by the Nazis, she was imprisoned at the Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentration camps. She later recalled how she was being lined up to be shot by a firing squad when US troops arrived to liberate Buchenwald in April 1945.

After the war, she met her future husband, British academic John Peel, and moved to England.

She celebrated her 105th birthday in February with a party at her care home attended by friends and dignitaries, with a cake in the three colors of the French flag.

âShe was an absolutely incredible lady; we shall miss her amazingly,ââ Kitchen said.

Mrs. Peel was much honored for her wartime bravery. She was thanked personally by Winston Churchill and awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Kingâs Commendation for Brave Conduct, and the Croix de Guerre.

She recorded her story in an autobiography, âMiracles Do Happen.ââ

Her husband predeceased her. The couple had no children. She leaves members of her extended family in France.